If the boulder is going to roll, it's going to roll whether the ants want it to or not. If the boulder isn't going to roll, the ants aren't going to be able to make it start.
Not even 6 billion ants? Of course, you'd have a much better chance of getting 6 billion ants to act in unison than humans.
If serious problems start to develop it will move the risk to a position where it does make economical sense to respond to it and do something.
A philosophy that works fine, *except* for when you get a scenario where, by the time it does make economic sense to respond to the increased risk, it's too late to avert serious damage (both generally and economically). I'd say this is very likely to be such a scenario if the increased risk turns out to exist. Do you still want to apply that philosophy?
Actually, from the article, the yearly prices for storing any significant amount of data (100Gb+) are so high that buying an external HD pretty much pays itself in 1 or 2 months.
Depends how much your data is worth to you. If your house burns down, you may have lost all your physical drives in one go. That's why I like the idea of remote storage.
Well I think the revolution leading to the Declaration of Independence was largely sparked by having to pay taxes. Significantly more serious than the loss of freedom to use your digital media, and the monopolistic prices you have to pay for it? I think many would say no, especially when media is so important to many in this day and age.
The MySpace cesspool is in danger of leaking out and poisoning the well of community-based boards everywhere; the pure, crystal clear waters of SlashDot
Hmm, you give a very interesting description for 'festering turdpool'.:-P
I think punters just weren't very happy with their experience because by the time they got into the theater they had been blinded by the colour scheme. And the web doesn't really do it justice, you have to actually go and see the paint in these places to realise how f*cking awful it is. Good for jets high in the air you want to be very visible; awful for just about anything else.
I don't follow soccer outside of the major tournaments (EuroCup and World Cup), but if USA plays as it did against Italy often, then they certainly deserve the ranking.
I have to agree there. And the score should've been 2-1 USA, but for the usual retarded FIFA refereeing.:-(
Ohhhh don't comment on this invalid championships. The Swiss referee for the England v Portugal match made such a bunch of bad decisions, causing England to lose when they should have won, that even HE apologised afterwards.
namecheap.com. I have all but 1 of my domains with them, and that 1 is a.tv domain (when are they gonna become transferrable?!)
As their name suggests, they are cheap. No-nonsense management interface and they're not Godaddy, which is always a plus. Only problem is their support could be a little more responsive.
I guess at this point I'm feeling like when you're 10 years into a so-so marriage. Sure you might like to leave and try something better, but when you step back and look at all the effort that will go into getting divorced and setting yourself up in a new marriage and then wonder if at the end of the day you'll just be trading one set of problems for a new, different set of problems with someone else.
I think that's not quite a correct analogy, or I'd totally agree with you. There's a very fundamental difference between Windows and Linux - Linux is opensource, as is much of the software on top of it. That means that once you've switched, you don't have to worry about being forced to do stuff you don't want to by big corporations, with your only recourse to complain to them and/or stop using the software. You can hack it, branch it, switch to another distro (obviously far easier than switching from Windows), etc.
It's a bit more like your 10-year wife having syphilis, and if you for a new marriage you're avoiding a rather fundamental problem.
"Because it is a professionally put together site it does look legitimate, although it should be obvious from the price that it isn't," Mr Phillips said.
Simple answer - they should raise their prices to 79p/track!
Mmm. I'm kinda disappointed with this style. Although many aspects are nicer, a few things (that I absolutely expect not to be fixed) suck:
- Tahoma is a nasty font. Times or Arial are vastly nicer to read. - Why aren't there lines on the left/right of each capsule, like there were in the runner up design? Now capsules look split apart, with the 'reply to this bit' tacked onto the bottom of nothingness. - Those horrible 'L's for an indented paragraph, even when it's within a comment (ie. not marking a whole new comment reply) - The scores right-aligned; why? They were better next to the topic, you didnt have to keep looking over.
The new design might be 'neater and tidier', but artistic design isn't the same as well-maintained code, pushing things away tidily sometimes actually makes it worse.
I think non-Brits will be disappointed. The BBC live streams will only be streamed to UK IP addresses. Too bad, non-licence fee payers. Oh wait, I don't pay it either but I can still get the stream. Tee-hee! Maybe it's time that ancient method of funding was scrapped.
Of course relays can be setup, but there will hardly be enough to cause 'internet meltdown'.
Do you really want to see Sweden facing formal reprimands and trade sanctions in five years?
No, we'd like to see the rest of the world get a clue and enact reasonable copyright laws, and I can't see a better way to do it than a major Western country starting the resistance to the current ones.
Any idea why Piratpartiet is called that? It's a pretty strange name calling yourself the Piracy Party as it sounds like you 100% endorse all piracy, especially when they don't actually want to abolish copyright, just reduce it to 5 years.
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Last I checked, even sex offenders were innocent (of new crimes) until proven guilty.
Perhaps the law has now been enhanced to cater for this clear anomoly?
If the boulder is going to roll, it's going to roll whether the ants want it to or not. If the boulder isn't going to roll, the ants aren't going to be able to make it start.
Not even 6 billion ants? Of course, you'd have a much better chance of getting 6 billion ants to act in unison than humans.
If serious problems start to develop it will move the risk to a position where it does make economical sense to respond to it and do something.
A philosophy that works fine, *except* for when you get a scenario where, by the time it does make economic sense to respond to the increased risk, it's too late to avert serious damage (both generally and economically). I'd say this is very likely to be such a scenario if the increased risk turns out to exist. Do you still want to apply that philosophy?
Actually, from the article, the yearly prices for storing any significant amount of data (100Gb+) are so high that buying an external HD pretty much pays itself in 1 or 2 months.
Depends how much your data is worth to you. If your house burns down, you may have lost all your physical drives in one go. That's why I like the idea of remote storage.
Well I think the revolution leading to the Declaration of Independence was largely sparked by having to pay taxes. Significantly more serious than the loss of freedom to use your digital media, and the monopolistic prices you have to pay for it? I think many would say no, especially when media is so important to many in this day and age.
Most "robots" *are* just automated devices, not Commander Data-like sentient androids.
Links to the ones that aren't please?
The MySpace cesspool is in danger of leaking out and poisoning the well of community-based boards everywhere; the pure, crystal clear waters of SlashDot
:-P
Hmm, you give a very interesting description for 'festering turdpool'.
I think punters just weren't very happy with their experience because by the time they got into the theater they had been blinded by the colour scheme. And the web doesn't really do it justice, you have to actually go and see the paint in these places to realise how f*cking awful it is. Good for jets high in the air you want to be very visible; awful for just about anything else.
I don't follow soccer outside of the major tournaments (EuroCup and World Cup), but if USA plays as it did against Italy often, then they certainly deserve the ranking.
:-(
I have to agree there. And the score should've been 2-1 USA, but for the usual retarded FIFA refereeing.
in the NFL the 32 teams are pretty close in talent level, this is because of the salary cap.
$5bn/year?
Ohhhh don't comment on this invalid championships. The Swiss referee for the England v Portugal match made such a bunch of bad decisions, causing England to lose when they should have won, that even HE apologised afterwards.
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is your shift key broken/ it looks like it1
Couldn't you sort of emulate overloading by declaring a variadic function and checking the argument type and number passed to it?
namecheap.com. I have all but 1 of my domains with them, and that 1 is a .tv domain (when are they gonna become transferrable?!)
As their name suggests, they are cheap. No-nonsense management interface and they're not Godaddy, which is always a plus. Only problem is their support could be a little more responsive.
I guess at this point I'm feeling like when you're 10 years into a so-so marriage. Sure you might like to leave and try something better, but when you step back and look at all the effort that will go into getting divorced and setting yourself up in a new marriage and then wonder if at the end of the day you'll just be trading one set of problems for a new, different set of problems with someone else.
I think that's not quite a correct analogy, or I'd totally agree with you. There's a very fundamental difference between Windows and Linux - Linux is opensource, as is much of the software on top of it. That means that once you've switched, you don't have to worry about being forced to do stuff you don't want to by big corporations, with your only recourse to complain to them and/or stop using the software. You can hack it, branch it, switch to another distro (obviously far easier than switching from Windows), etc.
It's a bit more like your 10-year wife having syphilis, and if you for a new marriage you're avoiding a rather fundamental problem.
What's the point in purchasing them again and again? If you purchased them once, grab the ROM and use emulation.
"Because it is a professionally put together site it does look legitimate, although it should be obvious from the price that it isn't," Mr Phillips said.
Simple answer - they should raise their prices to 79p/track!
No artists was ever forced to sign with a recording company
... and no worker was ever forced to sign with a sweatshop.
It doesn't pollute
Eh? People still need energy to live, don't they?
How much effect have those labels had on the purchasing of said cigarettes?
Mmm. I'm kinda disappointed with this style. Although many aspects are nicer, a few things (that I absolutely expect not to be fixed) suck:
- Tahoma is a nasty font. Times or Arial are vastly nicer to read.
- Why aren't there lines on the left/right of each capsule, like there were in the runner up design? Now capsules look split apart, with the 'reply to this bit' tacked onto the bottom of nothingness.
- Those horrible 'L's for an indented paragraph, even when it's within a comment (ie. not marking a whole new comment reply)
- The scores right-aligned; why? They were better next to the topic, you didnt have to keep looking over.
The new design might be 'neater and tidier', but artistic design isn't the same as well-maintained code, pushing things away tidily sometimes actually makes it worse.
I think non-Brits will be disappointed. The BBC live streams will only be streamed to UK IP addresses. Too bad, non-licence fee payers. Oh wait, I don't pay it either but I can still get the stream. Tee-hee! Maybe it's time that ancient method of funding was scrapped.
Of course relays can be setup, but there will hardly be enough to cause 'internet meltdown'.
Do you really want to see Sweden facing formal reprimands and trade sanctions in five years?
No, we'd like to see the rest of the world get a clue and enact reasonable copyright laws, and I can't see a better way to do it than a major Western country starting the resistance to the current ones.
Any idea why Piratpartiet is called that? It's a pretty strange name calling yourself the Piracy Party as it sounds like you 100% endorse all piracy, especially when they don't actually want to abolish copyright, just reduce it to 5 years.
I think it's more based on a phallicy.